Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

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"Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but fully earned."--Margaret Atwood,

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fflo, August 5, 2012 (view all comments by fflo)
Revisited this collection recently; it was richer than I remembered (no pun there) (honest), and I'd remembered it as rich. Plus now I have less discomfort with Rich's more overtly politically heavy, relatively prosaic poems.

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"Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but fully earned."--Margaret Atwood,

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